Because it is wrong : torture, privacy and presidential power in the age of terror, Charles Fried and Gregory Fried

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Because it is wrong : torture, privacy and presidential power in the age of terror, Charles Fried and Gregory Fried

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This book is born of conversations between father and son Charles and Gregory Fried (respectively of Harvard Law School and Suffolk U.) over controversial aspects of the so-called "war on terror," specifically the use of torture (euphemistically called "enhanced interrogations" in the media) on suspected terrorists and the deployment of pervasive warrantless electronic surveillance domestically. Together, they take a deontological perspective that both of these tactics are simply wrong in their very nature (as opposed to the possible utilitarian perspective that some things can be justified because of the good that might result) and that to support them would be to support the right of the executive to break the law in time of crisis. Addressing the general reader, they support this view through a broad discussion of law, ethics, and American history. Annotation ♭2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This book is born of conversations between father and son Charles and Gregory Fried (respectively of Harvard Law School and Suffolk U.) over controversial aspects of the so-called "war on terror," specifically the use of torture (euphemistically called "enhanced interrogations" in the media) on suspected terrorists and the deployment of pervasive warrantless electronic surveillance domestically. Together, they take a deontological perspective that both of these tactics are simply wrong in their very nature (as opposed to the possible utilitarian perspective that some things can be justified because of the good that might result) and that to support them would be to support the right of the executive to break the law in time of crisis. Addressing the general reader, they support this view through a broad discussion of law, ethics, and American history. Annotation ♭2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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172/.2

172.42

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Because it is wrong : torture, privacy and presidential power in the age of terror, Charles Fried and Gregory Fried